Show Stonewall1 Jacksons Flank Attack at Chnncellorsvllle From General 0 0 Howards article in the September Century we quote us follows Somebodys guns thundered away lor a fewshort minutes and then came the fitful rattle of musketry and before I could again get into the saddle there arose the ceaseless roar oJ the terrible ter-rible storm LI sent out my thief of staff Colonel Asmussen who I was the first officer to mountr The firing is in front of De vens go and see it allis in order on the extreme right He instantly turned and galloped away I mounted and act off for a prominent place in rear oi Schurzs line so as to change front to the northwest of every brigade southeast south-east of the point of attack if the attack extended beyond Devens tight Hank for it was divined at once that tue enemy was now westof him I could see numbers of our men not the few stragglers that alwayafly like the cbafl at the first breeze but scoresof them rushing into the opening some with arms and some without runningor fall ing before they got behind the cover oi Devens reserves and before General Schurzs waiting masses coulddeploy or charge The noi Je and the smoke filled the air with cit mentajid to add to it Dieckmanns guns and cai > son with battery men scattered rolled and turn bled like runaway wagons jud carts in a thronged city The guns and the masses of the right br gade struck the second line of Devens before McLeans tront had given away and quick than it could be told with all the fury of the wildest hailstorm eyeiything every sort of organization that lay in the path of the madcurrent of panic stricken meir had to give way and be broken into fragments I My own horse seemed to catch the fury he sprang he rose high on his hind legs and fell over throwing me to he ground My aidedecamp Des sauer was struck bv a shot and killed and for a few moments I was as help less as any of the men who were speed ing without arms to the rear But faithful orderlies helped me to remount I rode quickly to the reserved bat i tories A staffofficer of Genera Hooker Hook-er LieutenantColonel Dickinson joined join-ed me there my own staff gathered around me I was eager to lilt the trenches which Barlow would have held Butcdbecks second line was ordered to change front line there His men kept their ranks but at first they appeared slow Will they never getthere Dickinson said oh General sew those men coming from that hill awav off to the right and theres the enemy after them Fire oh fire at them you may stop the flight I No Colonel said II will never fire on my own men I t j |